#=========================================================== # ■ Personality Engine #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # By Near Fantastica # 12/04/05 # Version 3 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # The Personality Engine handles character personalities interactions and emotions... # Add to the Sterotype names to add more characters to the Personality Model # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Intrinsic Variables 0 to 100 # # Integrity – This variable is close to the common use of the term. Actors with high Integrity # always keep their word, never tell lies, and never reveal secrets. Actors with low Integrity # break their promises, lie and reveal secrets. # # Virtue – This is the degree to which an actor takes other actors’ needs and desires into # account when making decisions. Actors with high virtue make choices based on # what’s best for other actors, themselves included. Actors with low Virtue are selfish, # self-centered and egotistical. They always place their own interests ahead of others considerations. # # Power – This variable represents the ability to wreak physical, financial, or social injury # upon others. Actors with lots of Power have the capacity to do harm, but not necessarily # the motivation. # # Intelligence – this variable represents the ability to make correct decisions. Actors with # high Intelligence often make the most efficacious and pragmatic choices. Actors with low # Intelligence often make incorrect judgments. # # Attractiveness – This variable represents an Actor’s physical appearance. A female Actor # with high Attractiveness is pretty; a male Actor with high Attractiveness is handsome. # # Volatility Variables 0 to 100 # # Adrenaline – Think of this variable as “the speed with which adrenaline pours # into the bloodstream.” It controls the rate of change of Anger/Fear. High values # describe an Actor who angers or runs quickly. # # Manic Depressive – Actors with high levels of this variable soar to peaks of joy or plunge # to depths every time they look at the mail; controls Joy/Sadness. # # Sensuality – This variable controls the rate of change of Arousal/ Disgust. An Actor with # high value of Sensuality is readily aroused and easily disgusted. # # Mood Variables 100 to -100 # # Anger/Fear – Positive values denote anger; negative values denote fear. # # Joy/Sadness – Positive values denote joy; negative values denote sadness. # # Arousal/Disgust – This paring counterbalances arousal, normally thought of in its # sexual manifestation, with disgust, normally associated with smell and taste. In this case, # however, arousal is used to indicate any heightened sensuality. Licking your lips # before digging into a meal constitutes arousal. # # Accordance Variables 100 to -100 # # Accord Integrity – This variable is close to what is known as gullibility; its negative sense would # be close to suspiciousness. # # Accord Virtue – This variable represents the willingness to see the good in other people. # An actor with high levels of Accord Virtue would be more sympathetic and not respond # harshly to another Actor’s evil actions. # # Accord Power – This variable might be call timidity. An Actor with high Accord Power # overestimates the power of others. An Actor with low Accord Power underestimates the # dangers of any social situation. # # Accord Intelligence – No simple English term adequately captures this concept. An Actor # with high Accord Intelligence more readily defers to others’ judgments, thinking them wise. # An Actor with negative values of Accord Intelligence thinks everybody else is stupid and # rejects their suggestions. # # Accord Attractive – this variable also has no ready translation into English. Behaviorally, an # Actor with high values Accord Attractive sees everybody else as beautiful. This variable # makes more sense in terms of self-image, in which case you might call its negative value # vanity. Accord Attractive might also translate into something like lust. # # Relationship Variables 100 to -100 # # Per Integrity – This variable is very close to what is known as trust. An actor who has high # Per Integrity for another acts on the belief that the second Actor will honor his promises, # keep secrets and not tell lies. # # Per Virtue – This variable represents the Virtue of one Actor as perceived by another, Per # Virtue towards another substitutes for Virtue in oneself. In other words, one person’s Per Virtue # for another operates in exactly the same way he would behave if he had similar amounts of # Virtue. Indeed, it might be best to add Virtue and Per Virtue together in calculations. # # Per Power – This variable indicates the relationship engendered by Power; it’s close # to fear. High values of Per Power induce an Actor to defer to the judgment and carry out # the wishes of the powerful one. An actor with little Per Power toward another is less inclined # to carry out the second Actor’s wishes. However, true fear is more precisely a combination # of Per Power and Per Virtue. In other words, an Actor doesn’t fear another unless he perceives # the second Actor to be powerful and amoral. # # Per Intelligence – This variable represents one Actor’s perception of another’s Intelligence; # it’s close to the concept of respect. Although respect can also represent high perceived Virtue # or even high perceived power. An Actor with high Per Intelligence for another defers to the # other’s judgment more readily. An Actor with low Per Intelligence for another doesn’t give # much weight to the other’s recommendations and wishes. # # Per Attractive – This variable indicates the degree to which an Actor perceives another as # attractive. This value might be heightened by Per Virtue, and vice versa. #===========================================================